Staff and students efforts to protest the federal government’s refusal to help universities and the University of Sydney management’s job cuts on September 16 were thwarted by NSW Police, who again used the pandemic as an excuse to stop people from exercising their democratic rights.

The protest was organised by Staff and Students Say NO CUTS and Sydney University Education Action Group, which teamed up with a contingent from the National Tertiary Education Union.

GoFundMe has been set up to help pay the students’ fines.